Translation
to long for, to yearn, to pine
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Examples
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He longed for his distant home.
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She longs to see her daughter again.
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We yearned for the old good days.
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The bird in the cage longed for freedom.
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His heart yearned for her every night.
is not just wanting. is a wish; is aching for something absent, usually something you had once. The register is frankly literary, so it turns up in poetry and in letters home far more than in conversation.
Prepositions are loose here. is the commonest and safest, is well attested, and a bare accusative object also occurs in older texts. The noun is the longing itself, and hejmsopiro is homesickness.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 7, lesson 11: sopiri, gepatro, ĝui and 7 more words.